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By piss off - 08/04/2016 22:05 - United States - Vancouver

Today, a customer at the fast-food joint I work at gave me a pitying look and asked, "How's that liberal arts degree treating ya?" FML
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moniculkin 19

Shoot back with, "how's that diet treating ya?"

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yahtzeesouls 12

Would you like some Savage sauce with that?

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iAmPaul 49

They were just referencing the running joke that liberal arts majors can't get real jobs, though it sucks that they assumed you're somehow a liberal arts major for working there.

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JustinJK 21

Yeah, it depends on the LA degree. I'm majoring in urban and regional planning and getting certified in GIS. I'm pretty much guaranteed to get a job in my city right after graduating. However, something like gender studies or psychology not so much.

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bruh2016 9

Gender studies is the most raspy thing to major in and gives you no actual skills so of course they wouldnt

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Mandybruin 15

Um, no, you have lots of options with a Psych degree. I should know. I have one.

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Shorty_Mason 9

Well, as long as you believe your degree is helping you, that's all that matters

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LowExpectations 30

Your comment reminds me of this funny Kanye West skit where a guy spends all his money on getting his degrees and all he amounts to is assistant to the assistant manager at the Gap.

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Dale_shackleford 13

If OP works at a fast food joint, I really doubt he degree helped them.

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Futacy 29

Did any of you guys actually read the post? Or are you guys just really high?

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moniculkin 19

Shoot back with, "how's that diet treating ya?"

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queenariii 22

I think the customer is out of range.

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TMO2142 25

thats an insult used with a shotgun, not a machine gun or rifle (no im not saying shoot them)

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HylianBadger 21

That's when you're supposed to present the "special sauce" with their order.

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Exaspera 54

Guess it "takes one to know one." What a rude remark!

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Exaspera 54

Why did this get buried!? I was empathizing with the OP!

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Exaspera 54

How did this get buried? I was siding with the OP!

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WCARlover 34

People like that are so obnoxious. Someone has to be there to hand them their heart attack on a bun, so why insult the person doing it?! Clearly you're providing them a service that they want so screw them for being so needlessly rude.

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AdamTodddBrown 11

Obnoxious but liberal arts degrees are largely worthless.

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sweetpotato301 7

But no one can assume that that's OP's degree. My sister worked in McDonald's for a while to get some money before she moved country and she has a degree in cancer biology.

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onlychildFTW 33

And once she got her degree she moved into another career. I think the customer thought OP was old enough to be a graduate, and by working in that job it's safe to assume they got a liberal arts degree.

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False_Stupidity 41

Or some other worthless degree.. Like philosophy

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theamazingd 17

On the contrary, Liberal Arts degrees have a great bit of value. I tend to think that people see it that way because Liberal Arts doesn't necessarily prepare you to do one specific task...like, for example, how you would expect a Geology major to become a geologist. However, the Liberal Arts, on the whole, teaches you to communicate well, both in person and in writing. A Liberal Arts major may not have a set path to career success, but he or she will leave school with skills that are applicable to many jobs. They just have to make their own path.

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